Managed IT Services for Registered Investment Advisors

Managed IT Services for Registered Investment Advisors

RIA Specialization

Go West IT specializes in guiding RIAs by providing essential system and data protection strategies combined with the reporting and evidence of service execution that you need to be exam-ready. We are happy to work with your compliance consultant. If you don’t already have a great compliance consultant, we will be happy to introduce you to our trusted partner. Our collaborative approach to exam readiness provides tremendous value to RIAs by optimizing operations and compliance so you can focus on your core business.

Information technology and cybersecurity services do not vary dramatically between RIAs and other types of businesses. However, regulatory burden, reliance on IT system uptime, data privacy, Reg S-P compliance, and client trust are unique to your business. Go West IT’s skill and experience navigating the regulatory environment gives our clients a competitive advantage.

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Why choose Go West as your guide?

Responsive & Caring Support
We know that attracting and keeping talent is hard. We also know that responsive, caring, and effective IT support will help your people be productive and happy. Our staff has the skillset and are chosen for their willingness and customer service skills to create a great IT support experience for your staff.
Skillset & Capacity
Go West IT excels at hiring and developing IT talent so that you can rely on us to be ready when you need us. Our deep and wide pool of IT expertise and critical thinking skills is at your service through internal personnel changes, business expansion, platform changes, and in the event, you need incident response assistance.
Industry Experience
Go West IT is experienced in supporting regulated businesses. We have assisted with completing exam request, sat in exam meetings, and worked with customers on penetration test, audit, and exam responses.
Evidence of Execution
Go West IT will provide routine documentation of service execution (patching, monitoring, alerting, and issue resolution) so that your business understands the value we bring and so that you can provide evidence of execution to stakeholders and third parties.
Constant Improvement
IT and financial services landscapes change constantly. Our customers count on Go West IT to adapt and evolve our IT services to help them stay ahead of the curve. You can rely on Go West To choose and vet the right IT solutions partners to keep your business safe and help position you to take advantage of the technology.
Third Party Validation
Go West IT obtains a SOC 2, Type II audit on an annual basis. This independent third-party AICPA audit standard makes it easy for our regulated financial services customers to demonstrate to stakeholders, auditors, and examiners, that Go West IT has the appropriate policies, procedures, and controls for our service offerings and further that we have adhered to those controls throughout the one-year audit period.

Service Plan Options

RIAs have a greater need for tight identity management controls and documentation to demonstrate service execution to internal stakeholders, auditors, and examiners. Our Go Managed service plans are designed with RIAs in mind. They provide the foundational IT and cybersecurity support needed to protect your organization from harm, and provide the peace of mind to seize opportunities.

Proactive

The Go Managed | Proactive managed service plan combines our powerful remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform with access to our highly experienced IT professionals to deliver an adaptive IT support model for your business.

Continuous device monitoring and alerting, including CPU, RAM, disk usage, connectivity, and more.
Automated operating system and third party software patching for Windows devices.
Managed next generation antivirus software.
Ongoing vulnerability management.
USB storage device controls.
Secure access to devices for Go West IT experts to provide remote support for your people and IT systems.

Comprehensive

The Go Managed | Comprehensive managed service plan is an all-inclusive support approach, combining managed services, security services, and monthly support labor. With full access to Go West IT services, platforms, and IT professionals, you are free to move your business forward with confidence.

Includes everything in Proactive Plus.
Advanced technical support (IT engineer) support labor included.
Simulated phishing campaigns that identify phish prone users and train them to identify and report real-world phishing attempts.
A password management solution for your entire organization, including all necessary software licensing and ongoing support for the platform.

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Co-Managed Solutions

Go West puts a strong emphasis on security, for both regulated and unregulated customers. It’s in our DNA to be obsessed with securing our clients’ infrastructures, whether on-premise, or in the cloud. Our Go Secured service plans are stand alone cybersecurity tools that be leveraged by any organization. Each offering can be used independently of our core managed services. These plans are popular as a co-managed solution for internal IT departments that are seeking assistance with cybersecurity services.

Vault

The Go Secured | Vault managed security service is a password management solution for your entire organization, including all necessary software licensing and ongoing support for the platform.

An encrypted vault where users store their credentials for an unlimited number of accounts.
Browser extensions aid users in creating, storing, and auto populating complex and unique passwords.
Access to password vaults from any device: mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.
Enforced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
Help your users improve their credential hygiene, without seeing their credentials, by reviewing their Security Audit score

Phish

The Go Secured | Phish managed security service helps you identify your most phish prone users and reduces cyber risk through recurring testing and training.

Simulated phishing campaigns that identify phish prone users and train them to identify and report real-world phishing attempts.
Four Go West IT crafted phishing campaigns and up to two additional customized campaigns per year.
Phishing simulation results reporting.
Configuration and installation of an Outlook plugin that provides each Microsoft 365 user with one-click reporting to Go West of simulated phishing emails, proving they can recognize a real-world attack.

Advanced Cloud

The Go Secured | Advanced Cloud managed security service provides a broad Microsoft 365 security suite that includes backups, increased mailbox protection and safeguards against malicious links and attachments throughout the Microsoft 365 platform.

Installation and on-going monitoring of a managed cloud backup platform for Microsoft 365 services, covering Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams.
Scanning of attachments in Microsoft 365 email, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams for malicious content and real-time blocking of malicious content.
Opening of links in a sandbox (safe) environment to scan for malicious content before allowing users to access the website.

Advanced Endpoint

The Go Secured | Advanced Endpoint managed security service plan provides security layers designed to both defend devices against threats from taking place and advanced monitoring to catch threats early so action can be taken.

Managed antivirus, including deployment and ongoing antivirus maintenance.
Deployment of endpoint detection and response software (EDR).
24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) monitoring.
24/7 initial response to detected events.
Endpoint monitoring on and off the company network.

Cloud Compliance & Security

The Go Secured | Cloud Compliance & Security service provides your business with a robust Microsoft 365 compliance platform that shows real-time user, device, data, and policy hygiene (e.g., stale users, users without MFA, device compliance, risky sign-ins) AND shows your existing controls mapped to popular cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST, CMMC). We go further to provide you with a thorough roadmap for improved governance and compliance, with easy-to-understand descriptions of additional controls, how they strengthen your security posture, and how to implement them. We can even push new compliance policies directly from the application to your Microsoft 365 environment. All of this is supported with 2 hours of Go West IT consulting and engineering labor each month to support continued improvement in your cybersecurity posture.

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Managed IT Services for Registered Investment Advisors

RIA Specialization

Why choose Go West as your guide?

Responsive & Caring Support

Skillset & Capacity

Industry Experience

Evidence of Execution

Constant Improvement

Third Party Validation

Service Plan Options

Proactive

Comprehensive

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Co-Managed Solutions

Vault

Phish

Advanced Cloud

Advanced Endpoint

Cloud Compliance & Security

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